Sources: after Twitter refused to pay its AWS bills for months, Amazon threatened in February to withhold payments for the ads it runs on Twitter
Elon Musk is running into an obstacle in his relentless drive to cut costs at Twitter: some of the same vendors that Twitter is squeezing to save money are also its advertising clients. Mastodon: @sul...
Ring says new users of Ring Alarm will have to pay for a Ring Protect plan costing $3.99+ per month to access existing free features, starting March 29
Yet another company will charge its customers more money for using existing features as the subscription-based smart home becomes the norm.
The US imposes new rules requiring that CHIPS Act beneficiaries agree not to expand manufacturing capacity in “countries of concern”, like China, for 10 years
Commerce department imposes new rules on beneficiaries of $39bn programme — Chipmakers must agree not to expand capacity …
Sources: in an update to investors, Twitter reports a 40% YoY decline in both revenue and adjusted earnings for December 2022, as advertisers fled the company
The company recently made a first interest payment to banks that lent $13 billion to help pay for Elon Musk's buyout, people familiar with the matter said
Reid Hoffman leaves the nonprofit board of OpenAI, citing a desire to invest in companies using OpenAI's tech, which he says could cause a conflict of interest
- LinkedIn founder and Greylock partner Reid Hoffman is leaving the nonprofit board of OpenAI, he announced in a post on Friday.
Apple has approved a ChatGPT-powered version of the BlueMail app, after its creator Blix assured Apple that the update includes content moderation
Tech giant's review of email app comes as concerns grow over AI's potential harm — Apple Inc. AAPL 3.51%increase; green up pointing triangle …
US adds China's Inspur, one of the world's largest server makers that has joint ventures with IBM and Cisco, to an Entity List, limiting its access to US tech
The Biden administration's blacklisting of China's Inspur Group Co. targets a company that US tech giants like Cisco Systems Inc. …
BidenCash, a dark web site dealing in stolen credit and debit cards, leaks a free database of 2M+ cards revealing emails, card expiry dates, CVV codes, and more
A carding marketplace known as BidenCash has leaked online a free database of 2,165,700 debit and credit cards in celebration of its first anniversary.
One month after Elon Musk said Twitter started sharing ad revenue from reply threads with users who pay for Twitter Blue, Twitter has yet to provide any details
Mitchell Clark / The Verge : Mastodon: @Waterloo@mastodon.lol and @jeremyburge@mastodon.world Mastodon: Jeff / @Waterloo@mastodon.lol : @Techmeme musk Like all republican lie about everything Jeremy ...
Some UK officials and SoftBank staff blame onerous FCA rules, complexity and cost, inflexibility, and political chaos for Arm's decision to shun London listing
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Sources: Stable Diffusion creator Stability AI seeks to raise money at around a $4B valuation after raising a $101M seed at a ~$1B valuation in October 2022
With artificial intelligence booming, one key player in the fast-growing space is talking to investors about raising more money …
Meta cuts the price of Quest Pro, its mixed and virtual reality headset meant for business users, from $1,500 to $1,000, and its 256GB Quest 2 from $500 to $430
Q&A with OpenAI's Sandhini Agarwal, Liam Fedus, Jan Leike, and co-founder John Schulman on training ChatGPT, dealing with virality, fixing problems, and more
Exclusive conversations that take us behind the scenes of a cultural phenomenon. — When OpenAI launched ChatGPT … Tweets: @tiagodf , @trengriffin , @antonioregalado , @techreview , @ndiakopoulos , @...
Internal docs detail efforts by Tether Holdings and Bitfinex to maintain access to the global banking system by using shadowy intermediaries and shell companies
the Cullen Commission in Canada on money laundering asked Bitfinex - Tether people to testify at our govt inquiry on money laundering, and asked them nothing about their operations. https://twitter.co...
Amazon plans to close eight Go convenience stores in Seattle, NYC, and San Francisco, as the company reevaluates its brick-and-mortar strategy and cuts costs
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Silvergate says it's discontinuing the Silvergate Exchange Network, an instant settlement service that its clients could use to move money to crypto exchanges
Coinbase acquires One River, a crypto asset management startup that serves only institutional clients, like pension funds; One River was valued at $186M in 2021
to be rebranded as “Coinbase Asset Management”—is shrewd https://www.bloomberg.com/... @muyaoshen : Some people think crypto are dead. But crypto believers, in this case, Coinbase, are using the bear ...
Ryan Breslow sues Mark Phillips, a convicted fraudster he hired to build his social impact DAO, accusing him of stealing ~$10.5M of the project's seed funding
Billionaire tech founder Ryan Breslow is locked in a legal battle over the alleged theft of millions of dollars belonging to a nascent crypto project, Movement DAO. Tweets: @carnage4life , @sub8u , @e...
San Jose-based Vintra, whose software is used by the IRS, police, and more, claims its “co-appearance” AI can mark interactions between people caught on camera
A gray-haired man walks through an office lobby holding a coffee cup, staring ahead as he passes the entryway. Tweets: @daragh_murray , @latimes , @latimes , @latimes , @sarahdwire , @nickbaumann , an...
An NLRB director rules that Google is a “joint employer” with YouTube subcontractor Cognizant and must bargain with Cognizant workers if they vote to unionize
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Intel moves to a two-year cadence for data center GPU releases, canceling the Rialto Bridge series and delaying its next release, Falcon Shores, to 2025
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware :
Sources: Google hired a law firm for a civil rights and racial equity audit into its services and policies, after years of pressure from advocates and Democrats
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Sources: Character.AI, a chatbot that generates chats in the style of famous people like Shakespeare, raised $200M-$250M led by a16z at a ~$1B valuation
Financial Times :
Sources: Founders Fund cut Fund VIII, which is expected to start deploying capital in Q2 2023, from ~$1.8B to ~$900M; the money will be pushed to its ninth fund
TikTok told Ofcom the company blocked ~180K underage UK accounts a month from April 2021 to April 2022; Snap removed ~60 and stopped thousands of new accounts
Sources: Inflection AI, founded by LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman and DeepMind's Mustafa Suleyman, is in talks to raise up to $675M, after raising $225M in May 2022
London-based Electrify Video Partners, which invests in, and acquires, established YouTube channels “with a solid income”, raised $50M led by MEP Capital
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